We make phone and cable accessible from the front of the rack to keep the phone and cable guy from getting behind it.

Our racks do not have any customer useable equipment in them (DVD is in TV cabinet), so I view it as mechanical only. We show the customer that ALL of the wires are HERE and LABELED.

I especially don't want the cable guy inside my rack. Nor do I want him to deny a customer service because he won't roll the rack out or is afraid of it.

Selfishly, I don't want to babysit the cable guy for routine service calls, so we land every cable wire on a rack mount passthrough and label. We install the cable amp (same make and model as the cable company) so we can control the install without the typical cable guy "I've never seen that amp before, so it must be the problem, call the guy who installed it."

I'd like to believe that this is saving us truck rolls. In any event, we've never had anything go wrong because the wiring is in the front.

What's your experience?

This all makes good sense. I take a different approach and always do phone and cable/sat TV distribution in a structured wiring panel (even if it's in the same closet next to the rack). This keeps the cable and phone guys out of my rack, but doesn't keep them from messing up the structured wiring panel.

It seems like I'm always stretched for rack space, so keeping the phone and cable in it's own enclosure also frees up valuable rack space.

Ever since the first time SBS posted those pictures we've been doing our outdoor speakers the exact same way and love the results. For the larger speakers, the bracket sometimes feels a bit to flexible, but this is the actual speaker bracket not the post support.

I've found that the SnapAV (Episode) speakers don't work well mounted like this because the brackets are flimsy. They work fine on a wall, but on the 2x2 post, they flex too much. Haven't found the issue with any other speakers.

I've found that the SnapAV (Episode) speakers don't work well mounted like this because the brackets are flimsy. They work fine on a wall, but on the 2x2 post, they flex too much. Haven't found the issue with any other speakers.

have you used sonances 70v speakers? i just did this on 5 2x2 post's around a patio and it sounds amazing.

I didn't see any power on this wall above outlet height so will have to stop in again to see how he ran cables. I noticed the first thing he did after unboxing the TV was pull off all the protective plastic from around the bezel. Not trying to be too critical, but pulling the plastic off is the last thing I do becasue it protects the easy-to-scratch glossy platic bezdels on these TVs.

I didn't see any power on this wall above outlet height so will have to stop in again to see how he ran cables. I noticed the first thing he did after unboxing the TV was pull off all the protective plastic from around the bezel. Not trying to be too critical, but pulling the plastic off is the last thing I do becasue it protects the easy-to-scratch glossy platic bezdels on these TVs.

The mount isn't centered between the lights. Was the finished install centered? Or did you leave before he finished?

He measured around for awhile so not really sure what the thinking was on placement. I took the picture right before I left so not sure how it ended up. No drop ceiling so I'm curious what happens with power and connection to sources.

I'm doing a job in the area so will stop in again to see how it looks when complete. At least the pizza is good.

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